eBay

Principal Cloud Security Architect

eBay

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San JoseCaliforniaTexasUnited States

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Salary

💰 $240,800 - $321,500 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Architect, build, and implement security solutions that scale globally across our Kubernetes clusters and Cloud environment.
  • Design, build, and maintain highly reliable control-plane services that orchestrate network policy and segmentation.
  • Architect and implement scalable, low-toil solutions for key security primitives.
  • Drive integration at scale with SDN/CNI layers and Linux networking fundamentals.
  • Ensure all delivered solutions are production-ready and built for easy adoption.
  • Lead the strategic adoption of AI/ML methods as a superpower for scale and speed.
  • Define rollout quality strategies, config management, and schema migrations.
  • Mentor senior and junior engineers on systems design, reliable operations, and testing practices.
  • Work directly with peer organizations to drive adoption of your reference implementations.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in backend/systems engineering; building distributed services and controllers.
  • Hands-on experience building controllers/Operators/CRDs.
  • Proven understanding of enterprise-level IDM/IAM systems (e.g., federated identity, role-based access control, provisioning) and PAM solutions.
  • Tokenization or Encryption-as-a-Service solutions at scale.
  • Solid grasp of TCP/IP, Linux, and container networking.
  • Experience running and maintaining high-scale services in public/private cloud environments.
  • Deep SDN/CNI expertise (Cilium, Calico, Istio) and experience with Envoy filter development.
  • Familiarity with eBPF for network observability or security policy enforcement.
  • Experience with security policy engines (OPA/Gatekeeper).
  • Exposure to event pipelines (Kafka, PubSub) for high-volume controller communication.
Benefits
  • Full range of medical benefits
  • Financial benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • 401(k) eligibility
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesSDNCNILinux networkingAI/ML methodsTokenizationEncryption-as-a-ServiceTCP/IPeBPFsecurity policy engines
Soft Skills
mentoringleadershipcollaborationstrategic adoptionsystems designreliable operationstesting practices